Sparks, Wilfred Harold

Killed in Vehicle Accident 1944-11-01

Birth Date: 1914

Born:

Son of William James Sparks and Georgie Sparks, of Saint John, New Brunswick.

Home: St, John, New Brunswick

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

17 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

Souris, Manitoba, Canada

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Leading Aircraftman

Service Numbers

R/190227

Home

St, John, New Brunswick

First Burial

Cedar Hill Cemetery,St John, New Brunswick, Canada

LAC Sparks was killed when a stake truck overturned three miles east of the junction of 2 and 20 Highways.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

This incident involved multiple aircraft:

Kittyhawk Mk. III Serial: 839

All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.

Findagrave.com

17 SFTS (17 Service Flying Training School)

Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.

There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane